Alberto Seixas Santos

Alberto Jorge Seixas dos Santos (born March 20, 1936 in Lisbon ; † December 10, 2016 there ) was a Portuguese film director .

Career

His parents came from the Figueira da Foz seaside resort . He studied history and philosophy at the University of Lisbon . After four years in which he was already active in film clubs , he broke off his studies in 1958 and became a film critic for various newspapers, including the Diário de Lisboa and the Jornal de Letras e Artes . From 1962 he studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris and at the London Film School .

After a few documentaries, he made his first feature film, the short film Brandos Costumes , in 1968 , which was only shown after the Carnation Revolution . Swedish director Solveig Nordlund , who had turned to film since meeting Seixas Santos in 1962, was involved in the editing of the film .

In 1969, Seixas Santos co-founded the film collective Centro Português de Cinema , a nucleus of Novo Cinema . After the Carnation Revolution in 1974 he became director of the film school of the National Conservatory in Lisbon and later director of the Instituto Português de Cinema , now the Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual . In the 1980s he was program director at Rádio e Televisão de Portugal .

In recent years he has turned back to directing and especially to narrative cinema, also on an international level.

He is the godfather of the FigueiraFilmArt film festival, which was founded in 2014 as the successor to the traditional Festival Internacional de Cinema da Figueira da Foz (FICFF, 1972–2002).

reception

Seixas Santos' importance for Portuguese film cannot be measured by his relatively few films. Works such as Brandos Costumes (“Gentle Customs”) or Mal (“Böse”) were groundbreaking for filmmakers and film critics in the country, as was his film Gestos e Fragmentos (“Gestures and Fragments”), in which 8 years after the Carnation Revolution, in addition to Robert Kramer , one of the most important revolutionary militants ( Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho ) had a say, stimulated discussions. But Seixas Santos was an important figure in Portuguese cinema, especially as a theoretician, especially in the 60s and 70s. He gave important impulses and was involved at all levels and in all important institutions for Portuguese cinema. To this day he is a sought-after film critic and an institution in the country's cultural scene when it comes to cinema.

Filmography

Director 1968: "A Arte eo Ofício de Ourives" 1968: "A Indústria Cervejeira em Portugal" 1975: "As Armas do Povo" 1975: "Brandos Costumes" 1977: "A Lei da Terra" 1983: "Gestos e Fragmentos" 1995: "Paraíso Perdido" 1999: "Mal" 2005: "The girl with the dead hand" (A Rapariga da Mao Morta) 2011: "E o Tempo Passa"

script 1967: "Hoje, Estreia" 1975: "Brandos Costumes" 1983: "Gestos e Fragmentos" 1995: "Paraíso Perdido" 1999: "Mal" 2005: "The girl with the dead hand" (A Rapariga da Mẩo Morta) 2007: "Lobos" 2011: "E o Tempo Passa"

See also

• Portuguese film
• Novo Cinema

literature

• Jorge Leitão Ramos Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989 ISBN 972-21-0446-2 .
• Jorge Leitão Ramos Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989–2003 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005 ISBN 972-21-1763-7 .
• Alcides Murtinheira, Igor Metzeltin: History of Portuguese Cinema . Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 .

Web links

• Alberto Seixas Santos in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Morreu o realizador Alberto Seixas Santos . Jornal de Notícias , December 10, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 (Portuguese).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Padrinho . Figueira Film Art Festival website, accessed December 11, 2016 (Portuguese).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 , p. 353.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003 , p. 549.
5. ^ Sofia Aparicio promotes new film in Shanghai . ( Memento of June 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Cam111.com, June 16, 2011, accessed on December 11, 2016 (English). Alcides Murtinheira: Alberto Seixas Santos (1936) . Center for Portuguese Language at the University of Hamburg , February 6, 2010, accessed on December 11, 2016 (Portuguese).
   
6. ↑ Murtinheira / Metzeltin: History of Portuguese cinema , p. 106f.
7. ^ Alberto Seixas Santos (n.1936) and Jean-Luc Godard . In: Público , March 4, 2011, accessed December 11, 2016 (Portuguese).
   Histórias do Cinema: Seixas Santos / Straub-Huillet . Cinemateca Portuguesa , February 2012 program, January 31, 2012, accessed on December 11, 2016 (Portuguese, pdf, 154 kB).